Ahmadinejad
Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s incumbent president, has taken a commanding lead in his bid for re-election with more than two-thirds of ballot boxes counted, Iran’s interior ministry has said.
With 80 per cent of the ballots counted on Saturday, the election commission put Ahmadinejad ahead with 63.8 per cent of the vote against 32.7 per cent for Mir Hossein Mousavi, his main rival.
“Doctor Ahmadinejad, by getting a majority of the votes, has become the definite winner of the 10th presidential election.
Al Jazeera’s Teymoor Nabili, reporting from Tehran, said: “The state media have declared victory for Ahmadinejad and he not only won, he blew Mousavi away.”
After the declaration, the president’s supporters took to the streets of Tehran, waving Iranian flags and honking car horns.
“Where are the greens? In a mousehole,” some of them said, referring to the campaign colours of Mousavi, whose supporters held mass rallies in recent weeks.
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